Vignette - View from the High School Founded 1777

Category

Library Item

Item no

41693

Title

Vignette - view from the High School founded 1777

Artist / maker

Dudley, H.

Date

1849

Size

11.0 x 15.3 cm

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Platinotype photograph from a woodcut in W. Steven's "High School of Edinburgh", 1849, in the Norwich Public Library.

"Let me call thee up before my mind's eye, High School, to which every morning, the two English brothers took their way from the proud old Castle through the lofty streets of the Old Town. High School! Called so, I scarcely know why; neither lofty in thyself nor by position, being situated in a flat bottom; oblong structure of tawny stone, with many windows fenced by iron netting - with thy long hall below, and thy five chambers above, for the reception of the five classes, into which the eight hundred urchins, who styled thee instructress, were divided".
Lavengro, chapter 7.

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